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What about John excited the interest of so many 1st c. Jews? Why was he preaching “in the wilderness” and not in Jerusalem? How was his baptism connected to and yet different from other Jewish washings? What is the Hebrew and Aramaic wordplay between “sons” and “stones”? How is John similar to both Moses and Elijah? How do the Psalms, Isaiah, Malachi, and other OT writings shed light on John’s imagery of serpents, trees, chaff, and fire? What is “baptism by the Holy Spirit and fire”? These and other questions, Chad Bird addresses in this week’s episode of “Reading the Gospels through Hebrew Eyes” about Matthew 3:1-12.